Run results for: Modern dataset vs old .getAttribute() vs jQuery .data() vs jQuery .attr()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.5 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 18

Operating system: iOS 18.5

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

getAttribute

13.4M/s

dataset

13.4M/s

jQuery .data()

75K/s

jQuery .attr()

69K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getAttribute	13,443,137 Ops/sec
dataset	13,418,865 Ops/sec
jQuery .data()	74,969 Ops/sec
jQuery .attr()	68,781 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<h3 id="data" data-test="text">kipr202 header</h3>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js" integrity="sha512-bLT0Qm9VnAYZDflyKcBaQ2gg0hSYNQrJ8RilYldYQ1FxQYoCLtUjuuRuZo+fjqhx/qtq/1itJ0C2ejDxltZVFg==" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

Tests:

dataset
window.onload = function() { document.querySelector("h3#data").dataset.test; }
getAttribute
window.onload = function() { document.querySelector("h3#data").getAttribute("test"); }
jQuery .data()
$(document).ready(function() { $("h3#data").data("test"); });
jQuery .attr()
$(document).ready(function() { $("h3#data").attr("data-test"); });